Yes!

When people ask my name (like, for a form or something, not just to talk to me) I always just go straight to spelling it. It saves everyone a lot of erasing/deleting.

I agree with you, but Mindy Park wasn’t written Asian. It was discussed back when the casting was announced — nowhere in the book is the character’s race mentioned at all. Park is most commonly a Korean last name, but there are also a lot of British and Scottish Parks, so it’s not 100% clear just from the name.

I thought you meant Kevin Bacon at first. I was thinking I didn't know Kermit liked Kevin Bacon that much.

Unless Jane becomes Janie and then everyone under the sun thinks it's Jamie or Johnny. Ughhhh has no one heard of the name Janie!?

Sorry. I don’t mean it like that. I mean it more in a, “I may be showing my ignorance, but wish to be educated,” kind of tone of voice.

I am sick of the racial policing that hispanics get constantly from all sides. As a half-hispanic man, it is ridiculous how people think that just because I am light-skinned that I “fit” perfectly into white society and never dealt with similar prejudices and background as other hispanics. It was fucking hard to…

I agree with you, but a lot of men aren’t too good on picking up on hints. A simple “I’m trying to read this book, please leave me alone (or go away) would probably end the convo right there. (I’m gonna get a ton of flack for this one)

in guatemala and cuba, the heritage of his parents matters little if his appearance says something else. he would be considered white on the census/by societies there. the idea of white “passing” doesn’t have much meaning in parts of the world where you race is based almost entirely on your phenotype (unless you…

All of the people you mentioned except Dandridge and Poitier were musical performers who occasionally had a film role, not Hollywood regulars. Dandridge struggled to remain relevant as a black actress and Poitier was specifically known for helping to break the Hollywood color barrier (at the very end of the Golden Age…

She was really good in “Whip It” with Ellen Page!

Ah, I see. The Coens should make up a story. And in that story, since they are free to invent any characters and any plotlines they want to, they should also feel free to do whatever they want with the general social and cultural setting in which the story occurs. And what they should want to do is to include at least…

Wait, so you’re complaining about a film not featuring black people in an era when Hollywood was so segregated that they had to create a special Oscar category for James Baskett because black men didn’t win Best Actor awards?

Was the Golden Age of Hollywood strong on people of color?

Can I ask a question that might get me in trouble?

You do realize that this is EXACTLY how ISIS recruits young lonely girls from abroad by using social media and romanticizing the life they will have as ISIS girlfriends with their dashing beautiful warriors — this “joke” is point blank playing off of IS tactics that are being used right this moment— aside from bein…

Thank you. Most of my family and friends are in Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE. They are living in relative safety (compared to, say, the refugees). I feel lucky in that.

Not just you. It’s gross. It wants to be funny, but there is nothing but sadness and despair for a young man who chose to destroy himself for a hateful, nihilistic cause.

Nah. I’m right there with ya. Can’t quite adequately place the humour alongside the knowledge that these guys commit child rape and kill and torture people.

This is in incredibly poor taste and not funny.